I Am Being Plagiarized.
I make it a habit to read a few web pages from new members of the Wealthy Affiliate community to offer advice. Most are not aware of this. To my surprise I saw quite a bit of my content, word for word, list for list, on a couple other websites within the community. Imagine my chagrin.
My first though was that these unfortunate persons that did it must be inexperienced. If they were experienced they would know that there isn't a better way to kill search engine ranking than duplicate copy. I felt sympathy.
It's happened to me before in an academic setting but this is a first since I started here at Wealthy Affiliate. My reaction when I discovered this might not be what you would expect and probably not typical.
I smiled. Then, I must admit, I felt my head begin to swell just a little bit. I was proud. To think that another person, although inexperienced, thought that my content was good enough to steal. Sadly they are probably mistaken.
There are writer's online that are much more worthy than I too have their copy stolen. Jon Morrow, Brian Clark, Henneke Duistermaat, Neil Patel, Sally Hogshead and on and on.
There are writers right here at WA that I am sure have better, more convert-able copy than I. I won't name them out of respect for their privacy.
The names above are already in the public domain. With this in mind I was feeling warm all over with these people thinking that my copy was worth taking.
For that I say thank you. It makes me feel good. It also makes me a little sad for the people that did it. Once the search engines detect duplicate content on their website it's going to make it harder for that site to rank well. And as we all know ranking is hard enough. So here's some advice. Take it or not.
It is better for your business and website to have terrible content than to have the best content there is if that best content is on another website dated before yours. Oh yea, by the way.
Leaving all that aside, thank you for the compliment of theft. Strangely, I appreciate it.
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I do not really under you clearly so i will read again tomorrow and comment on it. But knowing you must be something uplifted. See you tomorrow.
It's mainly about how some people copy other peoples website writing and put it on their website. Not a good move.
See you tomorrow rb. You are doing fine. If you need me for the keywords let me know.
Take your time and enjoy the journey my friend.
No I did not. I think that we all get what we have coming in the long run. Good and bad. Mainly, I wish them the best and hope they learn, as they will.
Some people really need to make money fast and look for shortcuts. I get it and sympathize.
Thanks for reading it.
It really doesn't bother me at all. It's my personality. Not too much gets to me. One thing, mess with my daughter, other than that I am very easy going. Thanks for reading it.
That's a good way to look at it. I'm assuming this will probably happen to most people with good content and that's pretty unfortunate.
It happens and my content is not bad but nothing that keeps readers hanging on every word, yet. Thanks for reading it.
Enjoyed all the posts and the comments.
But I'm not going premium. Reading Etzel post is very disturbing.
That's up to you but don't base your decision on one guy out of 800,000.
No product pleases everybody. Stay a free member.
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Tell a little about the Ranks because i notice my rank went up
The more you get involved in the discussion section, live chat or anywhere on WA the better your rankings.
It encourages all of us to help each other. In time you will be the one helping the new people. In fact there are already people here newer than you.
If you see a question anywhere and you have an answer jump in and lend a hand. Hope this helps.
Thanks Barry. This is all very useful info to a newbie.
My pleasure. Glad to help.
It's tempting when just starting to copy and paste. It will kill your chances of ranking. It's ok to get ideas from other people but not copy and paste.
Good luck my friend. All you have to do to succeed here is not quit.